Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 605 341 799
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 9.95% 13.15% 13.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.05% 40.50% 46.70%
Number of salaries quoted 249 294 721
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £27,750 £32,533 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,633 842 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.85% 32.46% 28.80%
Number of salaries quoted 697 637 1,461
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £32,533 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,450 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +16.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -6 141 £38,250 -12.57% 50
Cambridgeshire +8 133 £57,550 +15.10% 43
Hertfordshire -17 112 £57,500 +4.55% 61
Suffolk +24 85 £49,000 -2.00% 22
Norfolk +1 82 £60,000 +87.50% 19
Bedfordshire +8 50 £14,000 -73.58% 20
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 49 (8.10%) SharePoint
2 36 (5.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.82%) WordPress
4 9 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.83%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 83 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.49%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.33%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 130 (21.49%) Power Platform
2 119 (19.67%) Microsoft 365
3 104 (17.19%) Azure AI
4 90 (14.88%) AWS
5 73 (12.07%) Entra ID
6 26 (4.30%) GCP
6 26 (4.30%) PowerApps
7 24 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 22 (3.64%) GitHub
9 22 (3.64%) OneDrive
10 21 (3.47%) Power Automate
10 21 (3.47%) Snowflake
11 16 (2.64%) SaaS
12 13 (2.15%) IaaS
13 11 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 10 (1.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (1.49%) PaaS
16 8 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.58%) Firewall
2 26 (4.30%) VPN
3 22 (3.64%) DNS
3 22 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 20 (3.31%) WAN
5 18 (2.98%) DHCP
6 15 (2.48%) Internet
7 14 (2.31%) LAN
8 6 (0.99%) Broadband
8 6 (0.99%) SAN
8 6 (0.99%) Wireless
9 5 (0.83%) Network Security
9 5 (0.83%) VLAN
10 4 (0.66%) DMZ
10 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.66%) WLAN
11 3 (0.50%) SSL
12 1 (0.17%) IPv4
12 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (20.00%) Power BI
2 88 (14.55%) Tableau
3 28 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 27 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.15%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.32%) MySQL
9 7 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.99%) Looker
10 6 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.99%) Redis
10 6 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.66%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.50%) Big Data
13 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.81%) Git
2 9 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.16%) JIRA
4 6 (0.99%) MLflow
5 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 348 (57.52%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.58%) Finance
3 25 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.64%) Law
5 15 (2.48%) Multimedia
6 13 (2.15%) Public Sector
7 11 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.32%) Marketing
9 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.99%) Publishing
10 6 (0.99%) Retail
11 4 (0.66%) Banking
11 4 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.50%) Advertising
12 3 (0.50%) Legal
13 2 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 173 (28.60%) Analyst
2 166 (27.44%) Junior
3 160 (26.45%) Junior Analyst
4 81 (13.39%) Security Analyst
5 80 (13.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 80 (13.22%) Data Analyst
5 80 (13.22%) Junior Data Analyst
5 80 (13.22%) Junior Security Analyst
6 66 (10.91%) IT Support
7 59 (9.75%) Developer
8 56 (9.26%) Ethical Hacker
9 50 (8.26%) Senior
10 38 (6.28%) Architect
11 37 (6.12%) IT Engineer
12 35 (5.79%) Support Engineer
13 33 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
14 32 (5.29%) Network Engineer
15 28 (4.63%) IT Support Engineer
16 27 (4.46%) Lead
16 27 (4.46%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.93%) CSS
2 37 (6.12%) HTML
3 26 (4.30%) .NET
4 18 (2.98%) .NET Core
4 18 (2.98%) REST
5 16 (2.64%) JSON
6 13 (2.15%) HTML5 Canvas
7 12 (1.98%) jQuery
7 12 (1.98%) React
8 11 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (1.82%) SPFx
9 10 (1.65%) SOAP
10 9 (1.49%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.49%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.32%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.16%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.16%) Kafka
13 6 (0.99%) LlamaIndex
13 6 (0.99%) Node.js
13 6 (0.99%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.26%) Cyberattack
2 32 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.98%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.32%) Clustering
5 8 (1.32%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.99%) Product Ownership
7 6 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 6 (0.99%) Robotics
8 5 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (0.83%) PKI
8 5 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.66%) Blog
9 4 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (0.66%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 89 (14.71%) Windows
2 62 (10.25%) Windows Server
3 14 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (1.65%) Linux
6 9 (1.49%) Android
7 7 (1.16%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.83%) VMS
8 5 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (33.39%) Cybersecurity
2 141 (23.31%) AI
3 123 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
3 123 (20.33%) Mentoring
4 68 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (10.08%) Agile
6 56 (9.26%) Ethical Hacking
7 47 (7.77%) DevOps
8 45 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (6.12%) Analytics
10 34 (5.62%) Roadmaps
11 33 (5.45%) CI/CD
11 33 (5.45%) ITIL
12 30 (4.96%) Computer Science
12 30 (4.96%) Data Modelling
12 30 (4.96%) ERP
12 30 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (4.63%) Software Engineering
14 28 (4.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 150 (24.79%) SQL
2 148 (24.46%) Python
3 53 (8.76%) C#
4 41 (6.78%) JavaScript
5 38 (6.28%) PowerShell
6 22 (3.64%) PHP
7 14 (2.31%) Java
7 14 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.15%) R
9 11 (1.82%) C++
10 6 (0.99%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.83%) Bash
12 2 (0.33%) Bicep
12 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 290 (47.93%) Azure Certification
2 81 (13.39%) CompTIA CySA+
2 81 (13.39%) CompTIA Security+
3 56 (9.26%) CEH
4 47 (7.77%) Degree
5 43 (7.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (5.95%) Security Cleared
7 34 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (4.79%) CCNA
9 25 (4.13%) Network+ Certification
10 24 (3.97%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.80%) SC Cleared
12 20 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
13 15 (2.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.99%) CCNP
15 6 (0.99%) DBS Check
16 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.64%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.48%) GDPR
3 11 (1.82%) QA
4 9 (1.49%) GRC
4 9 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.16%) NIST
6 6 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 4 (0.66%) JSP 440
7 4 (0.66%) NCSC
7 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) SLA
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (14.38%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.64%) Hyper-V
3 16 (2.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.16%) Docker
4 7 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (1.98%) Terraform
3 10 (1.65%) Kubernetes
4 9 (1.49%) Ansible
5 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.66%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.33%) SCCM
7 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 418 (69.09%) Microsoft
2 156 (25.79%) ForeScout
3 32 (5.29%) Cisco
4 30 (4.96%) VMware
5 16 (2.64%) Databricks
6 14 (2.31%) SAP
6 14 (2.31%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.82%) Adobe
8 10 (1.65%) Epicor
8 10 (1.65%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.49%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.49%) Veeam
10 8 (1.32%) Apple
11 7 (1.16%) Aruba
11 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.16%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.99%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.99%) Dell
12 6 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.99%) Pega